The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own...
Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries
By Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker
Terrorist attacks in the last decade have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of many legal systems. Below, Aniceto...
Writing Theory from the South: The Global Order from an African Perspective
By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
Western thought has, from the first, regarded the non-West as a place of antiquarian traditions and unprocessed data....
The United Nations Charter and Extra-State Warfare: The U.N. Grows Up
By Charles H. Camp & Theresa Bowman
In recent years, the United Nations has come under attack as wholly inadequate to confront the modern realities...
Sovereignty, Self-defence And Colonialism
By Antony Anghie
The United Nations Charter is the one authoritative source of international law regulating the use of force. Since the 9/11 attacks that...
Preparing Rice Farmers for Climate Change: Dissemination of Submergence Tolerant Rice in India
By Takashi Yamano, Maria Luz Malabayabas & Manzoor H. Dar
Due to climate change, the frequency of floods and droughts is expected to increase. To...
Lonely Ideas
By Loren Graham
Russian technology has had a historically uneven trajectory. In recent times Russia has fallen back on natural resources for economic strength, but...
China’s Environmental Challenges
By Judith Shapiro
China’s huge environmental challenges are tied to domestic politics, rapid economic growth, and an intense phase of globalization. With rising wealth there...
Is China Buying the World?
By Peter Nolan
China’s ‘catch-up’ has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the era of capitalist globalisation. Below, Peter Nolan argues that the...
From Deep Globalisation to the Risk of Deglobalisation: the Rise of Local-Contentism
By Marcos Troyjo
As the world transitions from ‘Deep Globalisation to Deglobalisation’, economic policies based on a ‘Doctrine of Local Content’ take center stage. As...




































































